Chevy Chase is a neighborhood in Glendale, California, named for Chevy Chase Canyon (originally Cañon de Sicomoro). Flintridge is mostly known as La Cañada, a neighbor of Glendale.
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Bill writes to his son Arnold with a $100 check enclosed. We see mention of an excursion to Portland, Maine, back in late September, when Bill visited Arnold in Boston.
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Leonard writes Arnold on a billing machine at the Ideal System Company office.
Philip Wylie's book might be Generation of Vipers, a critique of contemporary American society, including Christianity, with numerous reprintings.
Leonard's sailboat is dubbed the Pixie. He tells a lively story of
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Hazel writes Arnold with belated birthday wishes. She talks of her religion and its comfort in coping with Dolly's death. Leonard has an abscessed tooth. Bill plans a business trip to Chicago and the East Coast. Bill's sister Belle has high blood pressure and health issues.
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Dolly's death seems to have turned both Hazel and Bill to their respective religions for comfort. Hazel is confident in her Presbyterian faith, and Bill, born and raised Catholic, may return to that church or explore the similar Episcopalian Church or even join his wife's church.
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Hazel writes Arnold a few days after Dolly's funeral. She was buried in her wedding gown in Forest Lawn Cemetery, where eight years later, Arnold's first-born son will be buried (though eventually disinterred and moved to a cemetery in Florida to make run for Arnold's sister Laura in the 1990's).
The list of relatives mentioned in the letter include: Tony Nevis (Bill's brother), Tony's son Stanley Nevis and his wife Betty, Bill's sister Isabelle (Belle) Nevis Bettencourt, Bill's sister Mary Ann Nevis Silva, Bill's sister Della Nevis Gomes and her husband Henry, Hazel's brother Les Wolfe (Sr.) and his wife Lenore, and a number of Bill's nephews and nieces, including Amelia Gomes, Alvin Gomes, Alice Gomes, Laura Nevis Mello, Bob Mello, Jerry Mello, Laura Mello, Edwin Buddy Mello, Katherine (Catherine) Mello, Ray and Mary Gomes, and Hazel and Tom Batti. The others cited were Leonard's wife Pat's "Aunt Be" and "Uncle Dave" and neighbors Larry and Helen Gibney. The two businesses were Bill's company, the Ideal System Company and Wayne's Goss Cleaners.
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